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Need help setting up beowulf cluster on two older RS/6000's with PPC CPU's

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Abzstrak

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I have aquired two older RS/6000's (PPC 333MHz) with 256MB RAM each and each have 2 2.1GB SCSI drives each, and a cdrom. They also have IBM SSA cards and I have an external storage array box with 5 9.1GB drives in it that plugs into both for shared storage. Each machine has two NIC's, however neither has a video board (both ran only from the console).

I would like to set the two up in a cluster (for the hell of it) and I would like to run linux. According to IBM's site, AIX is the only certified OS, but I bet with some work linux will work.

I'm guessing my first try will be to use linuxppc(downloaded from here )

I have no idea how to setup a cluster at all nor how to do so only using the console port, so any help and/or links would be appreciated.

I figured I could run a crossover between two of the NIC's for communications between the boxes, and the other NICs to my switch.

Also, does anyone have any idea if I went ahead and installed X if it would run remotely through my windows box (maybe using xwin32 or hummingbird), or maybe through my laptop running RH71?

Thanx for any info
 

DAMN!!
how did you acquire a RS/6000 with 256MB RAM???!!??!!!
wish that would happen to me!! :> you lucky bastard!

I have run AIX applications with xwin32 for at least 6 years now. in other words, yes you can run X remotely with xwin32.

i have know idea about how to setup a beowolf cluster with UNIX right now. all i know is that there is a HOW TO somewhere out there. i hear it is pretty complicated--like you have to recompile the applications you would like to run clustered.


 
LMAO, I actually bought the two of them from a company liqudating some assets... They sold them to me for $25 each and threw in the RAID array for free ;-) I was pretty excited as U can imagine, but COULD NOT act like it....

I have found some how-to's, but none are very "complete" and I have no experience at this... so...

Yea, I know I'll need to redo some apps for message passing instead of threading, but I've also found some programs that translate threads into messages and are "supposed" to be transparent to the program running...

Yazz, In the case I can't get linux running on them, do you know where I can get a cheap copy of AIX 4.3 or whatever the current version is? do you know when AIX 5 is due out?

Thanx
 

i am guessing that you can only buy AIX with a RS/6000 machine from IBM.
i am not really sure though....
 
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